You missed my point, but maybe you weren't looking at it any other way, and didn't intend to? We are already in that mentality, perhaps, convinced our own victimization is right around the corner, lurking. The ads on the phone book say so, right? It's costing us a fortune, and limiting us in so many ways.

For example, there's a reason the military can deliver free health care to it's members, at a small fraction of the cost of the private sector: accountability. Add in paying for only what is needed, with an eye towards saving money, not making it, and you have a successful operation, even by subsidized standards.

Could be a forest for the trees thing; most people don't look at it from the outside. I guess it's all in what you expect to be delivered, instead of making it happen.